* Maybe you kiss your beautiful wife good-bye and accompany your four-year-old daughter to her first day of school, before you leave for work and stroll down the waking morning streets, where you get blown up. Or you cross the street thinking about the beautiful sunrise, before one of the Blueline buses kills you like…
Both platonic as well as the physical part of love — defined as what we encounter on a daily basis — are important components for a normal human being. This was my argument in an article published in these columns, ‘Platonic Love Versus Physical Love’ (October 30, 2011) and a substantial number of seekers responded…
Democracy is unthinkable without freedom of speech. But how far should this freedom of speech go, when people can be indirectly harmed by words and their aftermaths?
The atrocious gang rape and the consequent death of the 23-year-old woman rekindled an emotional discussion about capital punishment. But what are the philosophical arguments for and against a death penalty, which cost the lives of at least 680 people (excluding China) worldwide in 2011, according to Amnesty International? Link to the article
If you think, having an occasional gang-bang in a “communal” restaurant to give vent to your suppressed nature and thus to change our world to the better is a preposterous idea, then you have not read Alan de Botton’s new book, Religion for Atheist, yet.
Is your spouse neglecting your physical needs again, since he is once again engrossed in a heap of books? Is he ignoring the fact that you have, for once, brushed your teeth tree times a day, just for him? And you are quite sure there are no dirty magazine or titillating romance novels hidden in…
